Stellar Regions

Down Beat (2/96, p.41) - 5 Stars - Excellent - "...incredibly fresh. The crystalization of Coltrane's post-'64 sound--which alternated hymnlike expressions with rougher, more jagged blowing as well as more vibrato and high-register playing....Melodies are typically brief, unadorned as the saxophonist jumps off to explore new terrain....the man clearly went out with a bang, or two."
JazzTimes (3/96, p.89) - "...reshape[s] our understanding of `late period Coltrane'....Coltrane was again in transition. This emerging phase of Coltrane's work promised to be markedly reductivist....more contemplative as well....STELLAR REGIONS defies the pat myth that Coltrane sojourned into the ecstatic sound energy of albums like OM and LIVE IN JAPAN on a one-way ticket."